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A few Harford County names are scattered among the 331 people appointed to more than 90 state boards and commissions that were announced Friday by Gov. Larry Hogan. The members of the county board of elections will be replaced, and two county elected officials were named to state boards: Harford County Executive Barry Glassman to the Maryland Economic Development Corporation, or MEDCO, Board of Directors and County Councilman Curtis Beulah to the Critical Areas Commission for the Chesapeake and Atlantic Costal Bays. Harford names were lacking, however, from appointments Hogan made to such major state regulatory boards as the Public Service Commission, Parole Commission, Real Estate...

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A few Harford County names are scattered among the 331 people appointed to more than 90 state boards and commissions that were announced Friday by Gov. Larry Hogan.The members of the county board of elections will be replaced, and two county elected...

A historic residence in Relay more than a century old was destroyed by a fire early Tuesday morning, according to Baltimore County police spokesman Cpl. John Wachter.
Baltimore County police and firefighters responded to a call of a fire in a...

A Depression-era federal building where customs officials once inspected imports is scheduled to go to auction next month.The General Services Administration said Wednesday that it plans to sell the eight-story United States Appraisers' Stores property at...

After nearly two years of developing a plan, an organization with roots in Howard and Baltimore counties has become responsible for managing a portion of the Patapsco Valley.
Patapsco Heritage Greenway, a nonprofit with members from southwestern...

Blink and you might miss a nondescript warehouse in the 3300 block of Clipper Mill Road in Hampden.
But David Tufaro and his daughter, Jennifer Nolley, are betting an estimated $22 million that their redevelopment of the 200,000-square-foot structure —...

Former Harford County Executive David Craig was named state secretary of planning by Gov.-elect Larry Hogan on Thursday.
Hogan announced the appointment of Craig and three other new cabinet secretaries at noon press conference in Annapolis. Craig ended...

The vacant Taylor's Antique Mall in Ellicott City soon will become home to a restaurant and office space largely because of a state preservation tax credit.
State officials on Wednesday announced the recpients of $10 million from the 2015 Sustainable...

More than a decade of effort by members of the Historical Society of Harford County paid off earlier this week when the 129-year-old former Aberdeen B&O Railroad station was moved 50 feet from the space it had occupied along the railroad tracks...

While it's well known that the Middle River Depot property along Eastern Boulevard has been approved for commercial development, only a relatively few of us know the details of what the owners call "Martin's Landing."
Economic development can...

Nearly 500 million years ago, the center of the Appalachian Mountains was located where the Patapsco River Valley now lies.
Local naturalist and author Ned Tillman will compress the timeline between then and now to explain why the area's geography...

Joanne Martin has grown used to doubters.
There were questions when she and her late husband, Elmer Martin, a professor of social work, first located Baltimore's National Great Blacks in Wax Museum on a forlorn stretch of North Avenue in East Baltimore....

In the 2.3 acres surrounding Asbury Broadneck United Methodist Church, a subtle link to local history lies in a cemetery that dates back nearly 200 years.
At least 1,800 graves — few with headstones, many belonging to former slaves — are on the...

In the summer of 2013, I visited the Clifton Mansion, which sits atop the little hill in the Northeast Baltimore park and golf course, as a $7 million restoration effort got underway.And while the place looked much improved — at least the grim flourescent...

The historic Rodgers Forge neighborhood in Towson has adopted guidelines for residents who want to install solar panels, an effort community leaders hope can strike a balance between preserving the community's architecture and embracing alternative...

The tiny brass ring bearing the initials "CC" presents a mystery: Did it belong to Charles Calvert, the third Baron Baltimore? And can the St. Mary's College of Maryland archaeologists who unearthed it ever prove its origins?
The archaeologists...

Walter Evan Black Jr., a retired chief judge of the U.S. District Court for Maryland who ruled against the city of Baltimore in its efforts to acquire the Colts after the team moved to Indianapolis, died of complications from Parkinson's disease Monday at...

A Royal Navy ship whose "bombs bursting in air" inspired Francis Scott Key to write "The Star-Spangled Banner" two centuries ago may have been discovered Sunday in Arctic waters.Canadian officials found what they believe is either...

The future of an 11.01-acre wooded parcel of land at the end of Maple Avenue in Catonsville, the site of a historic mill that dates back to 1850, will move a step closer to being determined next week at a community meeting.
The meeting will be...

The city's Board of Estimates is to vote Wednesday on a plan for a hotel on the historic Recreation Pier in Fells Point, calling for the city to alter an ordinance to allow the Under Armour CEO Kevin Plank-backed hotel to proceed without a public...